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Kit Club is a scheme where a school can borrow resource kits on a variety of topics suitable for Key Stages 1 to 5.
All kits come with comprehensive teacher’s notes.
Anyone can borrow a kit, however your school will need to become a member of the Kit Club first. You will need to return a completed application form, signed by your Head teacher.
For further details and to join the Kit Club, contact Jane Ives:
Tel: 0191 370 6207
Email: j.h.ives@durham.ac.uk
Address:
Science Learning Centre North East
Front Street, Pity Me, Durham, DH1 5BZ. |
Available Kits
Kit 1 Healthy Eating. KS 1/2 |
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This kit contains a vast amount of plastic foods. There are posters of the healthy eating pyramid and healthy food choices and a CD-ROM
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Kit 2 A2 Fair test posters. KS 2/3/4
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These are a set of large posters that can be used to show the stages of planning an investigation. They can be used for focussing class ideas about the experiment and for deciding which variables to plot on which axis.
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Kit 3 Micro-organisms. KS 2/3/4
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This kit provides an exciting and very unusual way to investigate the importance of good hand hygiene. It contains an ultraviolet light box and a bottle of ‘glitter bug’ gel which can be used together to investigate how easily micro-organisms can be spread between people. The kit also contains laminated posters, and a CD-ROM.
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Kit 4 General Forces. KS 1/2
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The kit can be used to give a general introduction to forces. It contains a variety of apparatus including a selection of vehicles, balls, sand/water wheels, yo-yos and gyroscopes.
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Kit 5 Skeleton. KS 1/2/3/4
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This is an adult-sized plastic skeleton that is mounted on a metal upright with wheels. One side shows the ligaments. There are teaching notes containing x-ray films, posters, a book and CD-ROM “Become a human body explorer”.
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Kit 6 Heart. KS 1/2/3/4
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This kit consists of 10 heart rate monitors, a model heart that can be dismantled to show the anatomy, 3 posters, and very detailed teachers notes. The monitors need to be in contact with the bare chest to work – for very small children, the elastic chest straps may need to be shortened for them to stay up. For this reason, two finger pulse meters have been added. There is also a peak flow meter with disposable mouthpieces and two stethoscopes.
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Kit 7 Torso. KS 1/2/3/4
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This is a plastic model of the torso with removable organs. The torso can be made male or female and there is a foetus that can be added into the uterus. There are simple identification notes and a human anatomy flip chart book.
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Kit 8 Magnification. KS 1/2/3 |
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This kit includes 6 junior microscopes (specially designed for use by young children), one binocular stage microscope, magnifying glasses and desk lamps for illumination. There are samples of many everyday substances mounted onto cardboard slides for study under the microscopes and using hand-held magnifiers. The kit comes with a set of magnification posters.
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Kit 9 Advanced Magnification. KS 3/4 |
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A set of 10 microscopes with inter-changeable lenses (x4, x10 and x40) for more detailed work. Comes with lamps and a poster showing parts of the microscope and how to make slides.
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Kit 10 Sound. KS 1/2/3 |
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This kit consists of an oscilloscope, microphone, oscillator and amplifier to show sound waveforms such as voices (accompanied by comprehensive set-up notes). There are also tuning forks, a slinky, tin telephones, hosepipe telephones and spy microphones.
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Kit 11 Cars and Ramps. KS 2/3/4 |
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The kit consists of a set of adjustable ramps with sets of cars. It is not suitable for investigating friction but is ideal for other investigations and 'fair testing'.
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Kit 12 Friction. KS 2/3 |
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The kit consists of a set of wooden blocks with different surfaces, used with ramps and weights. There are also sets of large plastic cylinders and a hand vacuum-pump to investigate friction in liquids and gases.
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Kit 13 Solar System. KS 2/3/4 |
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This kit contains a scale model of the solar system using a large (1.4m diameter) sphere for the Sun, that needs to be constructed, with a selection of smaller spheres for the planets. A 30m tape to help show inter-planet distances and solar system posters are also included.
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Kit 14 Eye Model. KS2 |
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This kit contains a large model eye with an internal camera. Images from the camera are displayed on a video screen in a model head, and there are flashing rope lights to represent nerve impulses in the optic nerve. There are teachers’ notes and supporting resources in the kit.
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